What is a cookie?
A cookie is a text file placed and stored on the internet user's hard drive, subject to their choices, by the server of the visited site or by a third-party server (web analytics tool, advertising agency, partners, etc.). A cookie thus allows the recognition of the User's device when they return to a website. Indeed, it is not the User who is recognized, but the device from which they visit a website.What are the purposes of the cookies issued on our Sites?
Only the issuer of a cookie can read or modify the information it contains. The cookies we issue on our Sites are used to recognize the User's device when they connect to one of our Sites in order to:Optimize the presentation of our Sites to your device's display preferences (display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits according to the viewing or reading hardware and software that your device contains, allow the User to access reserved and personal areas on our Sites, such as their personal account based on the information they provided when creating their account.
Through this means, Users access personalized or reserved content. Remember information related to a form that you have filled out on our Site (access to your account / and to your subscription). Establish statistics and volumes of traffic and usage of our Sites, implement security measures, for example, when it is required for the User to log in again after a certain period of time. Adapt the advertising content of our Sites to the User's areas of interest based on their browsing data.
What are the cookies issued on our Sites by third parties?
The cookies issued by third parties on our Sites are of different types. We can particularly distinguish:Cookies issued by our third-party business partners using software technologies commonly known as "web beacons." These web beacons are small graphics with a unique identifier that function similarly to cookies, informing the Site about the User's navigation through encrypted information contained in their device. Unlike cookies stored on the user's computer hard drive, "web beacons" are invisibly embedded on web pages and inform the website about which advertising content is most appreciated by users. We never link information collected by "web beacons" to personal data of our users.
Due to third-party applications integrated into our Sites, certain cookies may be issued by other entities. These features allow content sharing by users of our Sites, such as "Share" or "Like" buttons on Facebook, or "twitter," "Google+," etc. The social network providing one of these applications may identify you through its buttons and own cookies, even if you have not used them during your visit to our Sites, solely because you have an open account on your device with the social network concerned. We have no control over the process employed by social networks to collect this information and invite you to review their privacy policies.
Your choices regarding cookies
You have different means to manage cookies. Any configuration you may undertake could modify your navigation on our Sites and the Internet in general and your access conditions to certain services on our Sites requiring the use of cookies. You can at any time express and modify your wishes regarding cookies, through the means described below.Choices offered by your browser software
You can configure your browser software so that cookies are stored in your device or, conversely, that they are rejected, either systematically or depending on the issuer. You can also configure your browser software so that the acceptance or refusal of cookies is offered to you punctually, before a cookie is likely to be stored in your device. For more information, consult the section "How to exercise your choices according to the browser you use" below.
Agreement on cookies
The storage of a cookie in a device is essentially subject to the user's will, which can be expressed and modified at any time and free of charge through the choices offered by their browser software. If you have accepted in your browser software the storage of cookies in your device, the cookies integrated into the pages and content you have consulted may be stored temporarily in a dedicated space within your device. They will be readable only by their issuer.Refusal of cookies
If you refuse the storage of cookies in your device, or if you delete those that are stored, you will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of features that are nevertheless necessary to navigate in certain areas of our Sites. This would be the case if you attempted to access your account or your subscription which require you to identify yourself. This would also be the case when we, or our service providers, could not recognize, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by your device, its language and display settings, or the country from which your device appears to be connected to the Internet.In such cases, we disclaim any responsibility for the consequences related to the impaired functioning of our services resulting from our inability to store or consult the cookies necessary for their operation and that you would have refused or deleted.
How to exercise your choices according to the browser you use
For managing cookies and your choices, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the help menu of your browser, which will allow you to find out how to modify your wishes regarding cookies. Here is the procedure to follow for your browser to refuse cookies:
If you use the Internet Explorer TM browser
- In Internet Explorer, click on the "Tools" button, then on "Internet Options."
- Under the General tab, under "Browsing history," click on "Settings."
- Click on the "View files" button.
- Click on the "Name" column heading to sort all files alphabetically, then browse through the list until you see files starting with the prefix "Cookie" (all cookies have this prefix and usually contain the name of the website that created the cookie).
- Select the relevant cookies and delete them.
- Close the window containing the list of files, then click twice on OK to return to Internet Explorer.
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If you use the Firefox TM browser- Go to the "Tools" tab of the browser then select the "Options" menu.
- In the window that opens, choose "Privacy" and click on "Show cookies."
- Identify the relevant files, select them and delete them.
- In your browser, choose the "Edit > Preferences" menu.
- Click on "Security."
- Click on "Show cookies."
- Select the relevant cookies and click on "Delete" or "Delete all."
- After deleting the cookies, click on "Done."
- Click on the "Tools" menu icon.
- Select "Options."
- Click on the "Advanced options" tab and go to the "Privacy" section.
- Click on the "Show cookies" button.
- Identify the relevant files, select them and delete them.
- Click on "Close" to return to your browser.
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"Flash" cookies from "Adobe Flash Player"â„¢ "Adobe Flash Player"â„¢ is a computer application that enables the rapid development of dynamic content using the "Flash" computer language. Flash (and similar applications) stores settings, preferences, and usage of this content through a technology similar to cookies. However, "Adobe Flash Player"â„¢ manages this information and your choices via an interface different from that provided by your browser software. Insofar as your device may be able to view content developed with the Flash language from the Site and Applications, we invite you to access your Flash cookie management tools directly from the http://www.adobe.com/fr/ website. To find out about the options offered by any other browsing software and how to delete cookie files stored on your device, according to the browser(s) installed on your device, we invite you to consult your browser's help menu as well as the "Your traces" section of the CNIL (National Commission for Data Protection & Liberties) website.What are the purposes of cookies accompanying third-party advertising content?
When you access a site or application containing advertising or promotional spaces displaying one of our advertising or promotional campaigns, this advertisement may contain a cookie. This cookie, subject to your choices, may be stored in your Device and allow us to recognize your Device's browser during the cookie's validity period. The Cookies integrated into our advertisements or promotional content displayed by third parties are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices, which result from the settings of your browsing software used during your visit to our Sites that you can express at any time.The Cookies that we may issue allow us, if your Device has allowed their storage, according to your choices:
to count the number of displays and activations of our advertising content displayed on third-party sites or applications, identify these contents and these sites/applications, determine the number of users who clicked on each content, calculate the sums due to the advertising distribution chain actors (communication agency, advertising agency, website/media) and establish statistics, adapt the presentation of the Site to which one of our advertising or promotional content leads, according to the display preferences of your Device (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits to our Sites and according to the viewing or reading hardware and software that your Device contains, according to the location data (longitude and latitude) transmitted to us (or our service providers) by your Device with your prior consent, to track the subsequent browsing carried out by your Device on sites or applications or on other advertising content.
What is the advantage of seeing advertisements tailored to your browsing?
Our goal is to present you with the most relevant offers possible. To this end, cookie technology allows determining in real time which offer to display on a Device, based on its recent browsing within our Sites. You probably prefer to see product and service offers that correspond to what interests you rather than offers that are of no interest to you.If you share your device with others If your Device is used by multiple people and when a single Device has multiple browsing software, we cannot be certain that the services and advertisements intended for your Device actually correspond to your specific use of this Device and not to that of another user of this Device. In such cases, sharing with others the use of your Device and configuring your browser settings regarding cookies is your free choice and responsibility.
Personal data and browsing information
We may adapt our offers intended for you to information related to the navigation of your Device on our Sites or within sites or services published by third parties on which we issue cookies. Insofar as you have provided us with personal data concerning you, including your electronic contact details, during your registration or your access to one of our services, we may, subject to your choices, associate browsing information related to your Device, processed by cookies that we issue, with your personal data to send you, for example, electronic prospecting or to display personalized offers on your Device that are more specifically intended for you and liable to interest you more.You may at any time ask us to stop receiving advertisements or prospecting tailored to the browsing information of your Device by contacting us directly and free of charge or using the unsubscribe link included in any prospecting we may send you by email. If applicable, the advertisements you may continue to receive, unless you object directly to us, will no longer be tailored to your Device's browsing. Moreover, in the event that we consider obtaining browsing information from your Device from a third party (targeted advertising provider, advertising agency, etc.) that we could associate with the personal data you provided us, we would first seek your explicit consent before proceeding with such association and sending you resulting advertisements or prospecting.